Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters (4th Edition)

Ted Landau does an admirable job of explaining what can go wrong with your Mac and what you need to do to prevent it from happening again. Besides offering a few preventive maintenance techniques, Landau thoroughly explains the different types of system crashes and how to resolve them, including recurring system errors that crop up like recurring nightmares.

Sad Macs is well organized, with entire chapters devoted to startup crashes, printing problems, and issues specific to portable Macs. Landau has written the ultimate Mac troubleshooting guide; it should be on the desk of every Mac user. --John Frederick Moore